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Author:   Stuart Jones
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.922kg
ISBN:  

9781526176325

ISBN 10:   1526176327
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   03 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction - Stuart Jones Part I: Academy and community in the nineteeth-century city - Stuart Jones 1 The mechanics’ institutes and the spread of ‘useful knowledge’ – Joanna Bourke Vignette 1: The founders of the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution – Natalie Zacek 2 Heidelberg in Cottonopolis: how Roscoe brought German ideas to Manchester - Peter J.T. Morris and Peter Reed 3 James Bryce’s Manchester: the politics of the remaking of Owens College, 1865-75 – Stuart Jones 4 Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library – Elizabeth Gow 5 William Boyd Dawkins: race, geology and the deep past in Manchester, 1869-1929 – Chris Manias 6 Ancoats and lab coats: Sheridan Delépine and municipal public health – Michael Worboys 7 ‘In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers’: Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper and the Manchester University Settlement in Ancoats, 1896-1907 – John McAuliffe Part II: Civic university and civic decline – Stuart Jones Vignette 2: Catherine Chisholm and the Manchester Babies’ Hospital – Peter Mohr with Stuart Jones 8 Three Zionists: Samuel Alexander, Chaim Weizmann and Lewis Namier – David Hayton 9 Shared friendship and divided politics: Patrick Blackett and Michael Polanyi in Manchester – Mary Jo Nye Vignette 3: Formed in Europe, shaped in Manchester: refugee engineer, Professor Franz Koenigsberger – Jonathan Aylen 10 William Arthur Lewis and economic development: a Manchester story – Gerardo Serra 11 Tools versus minds: two Manchester computing traditions – James Sumner 12 Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity – Katherine Ambler Vignette 4: Shock City: Michel Butor and W.G. Sebald in Manchester – Catherine Annabel 13 Dorothy Emmet: ‘for administrators whose hearts are with the anarchists, and anarchists who can have a heart for the administrators’ - Rachael Wiseman 14 Gilbert Gadoffre: institutionalising cultural reproduction – Derek Robbins Part III: The University in the post-industrial city – Stuart Jones 15 Making an impact: Brian Cox, Jodrell Bank and changing perceptions of science in the twenty-first century – Matthew Cobb 16 Post-crash economics: liberal education through struggle against the curriculum – Joe Earle, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams 17 Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role – the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 - Luke Georghiou Epilogue – Dame Nancy Rothwell Index -- .

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Stuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century intellectual history and political thought, and his books include Victorian Political Thought and Intellect and Character in Victorian England.

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